Daniel Carlson rolls his eyes at the media gossip over “snubs”:
It’s not just that focusing on awards is the easiest way to miss the real fun and joy of movies and television. It’s that talking about nominees and winners in terms of snubs or triumph means admitting that there’s an accepted annual canon of award contenders, and that awards should only draw from that pool, and that anyone in that pool who isn’t nominated has been unjustly ignored, while those who sneak in from the outside are somehow “surprises” or “upsets.”…
Most importantly, though, nobody deserves anything. The warped relationship between award prognosticators and those who actually hand out the awards isn’t specific to entertainment writers/fans.
Recent Dish on the Oscars here.
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